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Critically endangered fauna−animals of Asia. ... Pages in category "Critically endangered fauna of Asia" The following 107 pages are in this category, out of 107 ...
The Javan rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus) once roamed across many countries in Southeast Asia. Around 2,000 years ago, they were still common in many parts of China. Around 12,000 years ago, they ...
Endangered fauna−animals of Asia. IUCN Red List Endangered category. All IUCN Red List categories: Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories ...
The Asian elephant is the largest living land animal in Asia. Since 1986, the Asian elephant has been listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List , as the population has declined by at least 50 per cent over the last three elephant generations, which is about 60–75 years.
Map of Asia. This is a list of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) [a] and continues to the present day. [1] This list includes the Asian continent and its surrounding islands, including Cyprus.
The scientific name Tapirus indicus was proposed by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1819 who referred to a tapir described by Pierre-Médard Diard. [2] Tapirus indicus brevetianus was coined by a Dutch zoologist in 1926 who described a black Malayan tapir from Sumatra that had been sent to Rotterdam Zoo in the early 1920s.
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species describes the Sumatran rhinos as critically endangered: the population is declining and only about 30 mature animals remain. The yet-to-be-named calf is the ...
An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, ... Asia's most endangered top predator, is on the edge of extinction.